“Enough is enough” reacts the vice-president of the United States Kamala Harris after a new shooting in Texas yesterday: 19 children and two adults were killed, according to a latest report. The majority of the victims are therefore children, students aged 10 at most, of a school in Uvalde, 130 kilometers west of San Antonio. The shooter, an 18-year-old teenager, Salvador Ramos, of American nationality, first targeted his grandmother, whose state of health remains to be clarified, before opening fire in this school. He was shot dead by law enforcement. The reasons that led him to this massacre are not known at this time.
It’s time to turn pain into action – Joe Biden
This drama plunges America back into a chronic nightmare and Joe Biden urges Americans to take action to regulate firearms. “It’s time to turn pain into action“, insisted the US president, visibly moved, in a solemn address at the White House on Tuesday evening.
One of America’s worst school shootings
“When, for God’s sake, are we going to face the gun lobby?“, launched Joe Biden, saying to himself “sick and tired“The shooter killed his victims.”in an atrocious and insane way“, declared for his part the Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. It is one of the worst killings in a school for years in the United States, it recalls in particular that of Sandy Hook, where twenty children had been killed by an imbalance in December 2012.
The impossible regulation of arms across the Atlantic
But regulating guns in the United States still seems impossible, despite the 21,000 gun deaths in 2021 in the country. Bearing arms is a constitutional right, Americans are very attached to it, 30% of adults own at least one weapon. Joe Biden does not have a comfortable enough majority in Congress to pass restrictions on the sale of assault rifles, for example. The Republicans are still opposed to it, just like the NRA, the powerful arms lobbywhich had notably financed the campaign of Donald Trump, in 2016.